340 THE KEPUOUUCTION OF TELEOSTEAN FISHES. 



or less obscured by post-mortem distortion, since it would appear that 

 the larv* of Capros, Creuilabrus, and several species of Lepadogaster 

 all pass through phases characterised by one and the same pigmen- 

 tation pattern. The identity of the pattern seems to be explicable 

 neither by the taxonomic propinquity of the genera nor by protective 

 adaptation. 



Caranx trachurus. My attention has been drawn to several errors 

 in my notes on this species (vol. v., p. 116). The yolk in Tcmnodon 

 saltator is actually described by Agassi z and Whitman as having only 

 cortical segments, instead of becoming segmented throughout as in the 

 ova which I attribute to Caranx. The difference is one of degree, 

 since yolk segments when present in ripe eggs seem to be the survivors 

 of the yolk spherules of ovarian stages (c/. Eaffaele, Mitth. Zool. Stat. 

 Neap., viii., 1888, p. 21), although it is only in the supposed Caranx 

 eggs that these segments have been seen to divide and to encroach 

 upon, and finally occupy all parts of the yolk after deposition. I 

 have also spoken of Eaffaele's species, No. 3 {loc. cit., p. 64) as doubt- 

 fully assigned by its discoverer to Coryphsena, whereas liaffaele really 

 says that, while recognising the resemblance to Coryphtena, he con- 

 siders that No. 3 probably belongs to a family nearly related to the 

 Clupeidte. If this view were correct one would expect to see at the 

 larval stage, depicted in Tav. iv., Fig. 9, some trace of transverse folds in 

 the lining membrane of the intestine. 



The young Caranx, mentioned in vol. v., p. 119, were taken between 

 Pufiin Island and Bray Head, Co. Kerry. In recording them from the 

 Irish Sea I was misled by a similarity of names in the two localities. 



E. W. L. H. 



